66 GIFTS 1 DECEMDEI\ 14-, 19 2, at a stretch stiffens the knees of crap- shooters and slows down their skating. 4 ;' I SAW AT LEWIS CONCER . . ,,;,., : .!;. :.".,,.< A ,;Lû I: 1."". :.::.::. .." '! ". . . . "" :i;,i ' ft '\ \ \ 1/// " ,- - - - - '" " ,'''''- / " .;@ t,ti '%', S ALLY has three youngsters. So Step- pup ought to be most welcome there. He boosts small folk up to wash basins, thereby making clean-up time really pop- ular. Steppup's smiling puppy face forms one end of the stool, his jaunty tail makes the handle. Around his middle is an oil- cloth blanket. He comes painted pink or blue, and costs $3.00 \\\ I/ - " .-/ ............ -' - -- - " "" '""" / " ,..... : .... ...""" . ; i ' . . ,.::-:; -...: '. r ! . J L' t ,. n ,. . t . . .' . '. . :-'.,: T HESE Twin Bridge Lights are new. They come in paIrs and fasten to alternate legs of the card table. Each light rears aloft on an adjustable jointed arm. These lights cast an even light on the table without glare in the eyes and with- out shadows. Enameled in green, lacquer red, or black. $6.00 a pair. ,\\\ 1/// " ,./ " ," / ^ "",...".,.,.,.,.,"'.,.,.,,,..0..,......... ......... .._.....,.... .":. :=:- m. Ti o., .:.: "";" . '. ;1;. .. .... ., : .,>iA . . :: t, : JfføJf i ; '; '- '1. t r. H 1... ...... . ...... , . .... <-, '>:ri:: ; : :: .\; :.;:::: :X t :;: : :..:. .' .....:. :'''jt::::::., . T HE Big Chief saw the Pygmy Flash- light and immediately bought it. ((It'll do as a gift for someone," he said. The Pygmy fits comfortably into the palm of the hand. It generates its own electricity -has no batteries at all. All you do is press the handle up and down, and you have light. $6.00 r 1 EWIS& T HE One-legged Table saves me a lot of mental wear and tear because it's the sort of thing you can give to young or old, married or single-which I do. It rests across the arms of a chair, or it can be held on the lap. The height is adjust- able. You use one soft padded side for cards. Or, if you wish, you can turn the top over and find a hard, smooth surface for writing or sewing. Lacquered in red or green; also comes in mahogany finish. 'y;""",:,.,..,"",!';...ø;.,..,.,.,",.,.".,.....,.,.,.. ,.,, .,".w<".""'h' h.... ",..... "... fi.7.50 Wt?:i.l : i -p r '.:":.::':: : .::::.":.=.:, .. :':-"" .$i '" r <.r/J#.'t l n. ..'. .;....':., . ,\\\ 1/// --: - - - - - -" ,",'''-' / I. "<;: i æ.. ä ., . R , ;; ;::*:: : Wi,.(i ...:<.:.: .:. . ,....::;::.-'. 'h'. : :::;: "::? M L l . . T HE Big Chief is giving the Window Closer to ever so many of his friends. You see, it closes the bedroom window. Fastens to the ledge. Has a clock that you set for half an hour or so before get- ting up time. At the appointed hour the dock releases a coil spring and down glides the window quietly. Enameled a soft gray. $13.50 .....:A.. D \ \\ 1/// .....- - -- - ; /"" . . :. .- . . .. ..n_ u........... T HE Servasmoke all but smokes your cigarette for you. Certainly it does the next thing to it - hands the cigarette to you already lighted. The top of the Serva.. smoke holds 40 cigarettes. Press the lever, down rolls a cigarette, on flashes the flame and lights it. Now I ask you, could anything be neater! $15.00 . . ' . k : . 1/t . , tf ,no "" -. "<". ,,\ 1/// " #' - - -- - -/ " /1 ! : ,...:.;:,',: :-- :::: . "-' ' ::' ';\.. , .".;.. . . . ',<: ' .. "- @ Lewis & Conger, 1929 45th Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City VANderbilt 0571 , M OST big-league teams do not own a farm-team of their own, but make casual arrangements with minor- league clubs to tryout recruits they have bought. It takes a few months anyway, sometimes a year or so, to season recent amateurs to the profes- sional game. There are no discarded major-league players with the Spring- field team. All the fellows on the farm are recruits who are expected to develop in to Ranger regulars. Besides the twelve on the Springfield squad, sev- enty-five minor and amateur-league players are listed in a card-index in the Garden. Scouts are sent out to watch the men on that list and report how they are developing and what offers other clubs have made to them. Every year, each major club can take an exclusive option on four players, but it has to bid in open market for those it wants out- side of this allowance. H OCKEY players wear out quickly and new ones have to take their places. Competition for good recruits is so active that any team's suc- cess depends a good deal on the effi- ciency of its scouting, so after a rookie has been lined up for any team the club-owner usually looks him over personally. \\Thile the six-day bicyclc race was in the Garden and the Rang- ers were training at Springfield, Col- onel Hammond went north to see an amateur whose name he asked me not to publish. He had found that though this rookie was on the Rangers' re- served list, another club had offered him a lot of money to break his agree- ment and go wIth them. Early in the morning Hammond arrived at a town on the Canadian border and went to a barber shop to get shaved. He felt that coming up there had been a smart move. Unless the scouts of rival bid- ders had found out that he was coming and reported it to the local press, he would be able to see the game that night and even talk to his prospect without being recognIzed. In the back of the barber shop sat a boy playing a banjo, and Hammond started talking to him. ,c'lf" es, sir, we've got a great town here," said the banjo-player. "Good theatre, hockey team-" " H d "\ " ave you got a goo teamr "Have w'e? Well, H plays on it, and I'1] tell you how good he is. They say this fellow Colone] Hammond from New York has come up here today to take a look at him." -N. B., JR.